Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 253 310
Rank change year-on-year -85 +57 -92
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 461 584 939
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.33% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.43% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 219 286 521
10th Percentile £38,350 £48,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% -1.10%
75th Percentile £87,481 £89,688 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £68,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.58% +18.70% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,914 40,901 84,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.19% 83.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45,055 21,599 60,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -88 419 £66,771 -7.90% 805
London -2 259 £80,000 - 555
Work from Home +80 254 £63,076 -5.15% 381
UK excluding London -149 144 £63,076 -7.58% 312
North of England -16 51 £71,255 -10.93% 65
North West +8 34 £85,000 +6.12% 40
South East -117 29 £47,500 -32.14% 82
East of England -14 25 £65,000 -10.34% 25
Midlands -44 19 £60,000 -11.11% 43
South West -81 19 £62,172 +3.62% 43
West Midlands -32 17 £58,750 -16.07% 28
Yorkshire -51 14 £61,963 +90.65% 19
Scotland -6 3 £55,000 -32.31% 23
North East -42 3 £63,076 -32.72% 6
Wales -38 2 £69,501 +16.11% 12
East Midlands -43 2 £152,500 +190.48% 15

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (3.04%) Confluence
3 10 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.87%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 54 (11.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 28 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.46%) Workfront
2 5 (1.08%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.87%) Shopify
4 3 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.22%) Magento
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (17.14%) AWS
2 60 (13.02%) SaaS
3 53 (11.50%) iPaaS
4 51 (11.06%) Azure
5 18 (3.90%) Pulumi
6 16 (3.47%) GitHub
7 15 (3.25%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.82%) GCP
9 12 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.95%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.74%) Figma
12 7 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.30%) Asana
14 5 (1.08%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.87%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.87%) ClickUp
15 4 (0.87%) H2O.ai
15 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (0.87%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 78 (16.92%) Broadband
2 29 (6.29%) HTTP
3 12 (2.60%) WAN
4 11 (2.39%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.95%) LAN
6 5 (1.08%) Firewall
6 5 (1.08%) Multicast
6 5 (1.08%) Network Security
7 4 (0.87%) MPLS
7 4 (0.87%) NGN
7 4 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.65%) Wireless
8 3 (0.65%) WLAN
9 2 (0.43%) VPN
10 1 (0.22%) DNS
10 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.22%) RS-232
10 1 (0.22%) SAN
10 1 (0.22%) Skype
10 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.36%) Metadata
2 19 (4.12%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.90%) NoSQL
3 18 (3.90%) RDBMS
4 13 (2.82%) Power BI
5 6 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.65%) Big Data
7 3 (0.65%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.65%) Tableau
8 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 26 (5.64%) JIRA
2 18 (3.90%) Jaeger
3 6 (1.30%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 160 (34.71%) Marketing
2 143 (31.02%) Social Skills
3 140 (30.37%) Finance
4 73 (15.84%) Banking
5 60 (13.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (12.80%) Retail
7 48 (10.41%) Law
8 47 (10.20%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (9.54%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (6.51%) Public Sector
11 29 (6.29%) Legal
12 26 (5.64%) Back Office
13 16 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (3.04%) Italian Language
14 14 (3.04%) Manufacturing
14 14 (3.04%) Retail Banking
15 13 (2.82%) Financial Institution
16 11 (2.39%) German Language
17 9 (1.95%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 135 (29.28%) Product Manager
2 82 (17.79%) Lead
3 75 (16.27%) Product Owner
4 70 (15.18%) Senior
5 41 (8.89%) Senior Manager
6 37 (8.03%) Senior Product Manager
7 32 (6.94%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.51%) Development Engineer
9 29 (6.29%) Software Development Engineer
10 22 (4.77%) Developer
11 21 (4.56%) Product Lead
12 19 (4.12%) Consultant
13 17 (3.69%) Lead Software Engineer
14 15 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (3.04%) Business Consultant
15 14 (3.04%) Business Development Consultant
15 14 (3.04%) Development Consultant
16 12 (2.60%) AWS Developer
16 12 (2.60%) Senior Software Development Engineer
16 12 (2.60%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.72%) REST
2 18 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (1.30%) CSS
3 6 (1.30%) HTML
4 5 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (1.08%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.08%) TensorFlow
5 4 (0.87%) Keras
6 3 (0.65%) .NET
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.43%) Pandas
7 2 (0.43%) Plotly
7 2 (0.43%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.43%) Spring
7 2 (0.43%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.22%) LangChain
8 1 (0.22%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.22%) Playwright
8 1 (0.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 158 (34.27%) Product Ownership
2 64 (13.88%) Social Media
3 54 (11.71%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.71%) Over-the-Top Content
4 33 (7.16%) Cloud Native
5 30 (6.51%) Public Cloud
6 23 (4.99%) Onboarding
7 20 (4.34%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.60%) Web Conferencing
10 10 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
10 10 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.74%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.52%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.52%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.52%) Podcast
13 6 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.08%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.86%) Linux
2 19 (4.12%) Unix
3 8 (1.74%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (65.51%) Roadmaps
2 220 (47.72%) Agile
3 141 (30.59%) Product Roadmap
4 122 (26.46%) Product Vision
5 106 (22.99%) Decision-Making
6 96 (20.82%) Mentoring
7 90 (19.52%) User Stories
8 86 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 85 (18.44%) AI
10 84 (18.22%) Product Requirements
10 84 (18.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 80 (17.35%) Customer Experience
12 78 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
12 78 (16.92%) Product Backlog
13 74 (16.05%) Sprint Planning
14 63 (13.67%) User Experience
14 63 (13.67%) Workflow
15 61 (13.23%) Digital Marketing
16 60 (13.02%) Matrix Organization
16 60 (13.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (11.28%) Java
2 33 (7.16%) Python
3 26 (5.64%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.34%) Bash
5 18 (3.90%) Go
6 9 (1.95%) SQL
7 6 (1.30%) Bicep
8 4 (0.87%) R
9 3 (0.65%) C#
9 3 (0.65%) PHP
10 2 (0.43%) C++
10 2 (0.43%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (15.18%) Degree
2 19 (4.12%) AWS Certification
3 17 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.82%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.60%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.95%) HND
7 8 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.74%) HNC
8 7 (1.52%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.65%) CCNA
10 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.65%) CISSP
11 2 (0.43%) ACCA
11 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.43%) CBAP
11 2 (0.43%) CIMA
11 2 (0.43%) IIBA
11 2 (0.43%) MBA
11 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.42%) QA
2 18 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.95%) GDPR
4 7 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.87%) SLA
6 3 (0.65%) PERC
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.99%) Docker
2 3 (0.65%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (6.72%) Terraform
2 21 (4.56%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.90%) Ansible
3 18 (3.90%) Argo
3 18 (3.90%) Kustomize
3 18 (3.90%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.22%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (13.23%) Adobe
2 44 (9.54%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.07%) Google
4 13 (2.82%) Oracle
5 9 (1.95%) Cisco
6 8 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.30%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.08%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.08%) CQG
8 5 (1.08%) Databricks
8 5 (1.08%) Dell
8 5 (1.08%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.08%) Patsystems
8 5 (1.08%) Reuters
8 5 (1.08%) Trayport
9 4 (0.87%) Juniper
9 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.87%) Toshiba
10 3 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud